All Hail the Second Amendment

[jonb]

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http://english.sina.com/china/2013/0108/546550.html

A man was stabbed to death this morning in a toilet near the Shanghai South Railway Station, according to news on eastday.com.

In China, of all places, where guns are illegal? A killing with a weapon?

C'mon, Min, you know I love ya, man, but...posting up an article about a shooting death and immediately painting the title out to be explicitly against guns is an invitation to the slippery slope. Where's all the articles about people being stabbed to death, or beaten to death with baseball bats? Why only guns? Baseball bats are used every day for murder and crippling injury, why don't I see a dozen new threads being opened up about how we need to regulate baseball bat ownership? Hell, you realize you can effectively kill a good dozen people with a baseball bat if they're unarmed? Even if they're bigger than you? An average 12 year old child can swing a baseball bat hard enough to shatter a skull.

In fact, as far as murder with a baseball bat goes, it just happened last month...IN THE EXACT SAME CITY that I live in. Or rather township. Population of this area is about 1,500 or so, as I last recall [not actually the boonies, mind you; it's a sort of township within the greater metropolitan area of Madison].

http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/Brea...69301.html

December 3, 2012 – On the morning of Saturday, December 1st, Ryan M. Smith died at UW Hospital. According to an autopsy performed by the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office, Ryan’s death was the result of blunt trauma.

Koalton P. Peterson is currently being held in the Dane County Jail on the new charge of First Degree Reckless Homicide.
Information obtained by Dane County Sheriff’s detectives shows that prior to the incident, the two men had been exchanging text messages over the sale of marijuana from Peterson to Ryan. Those text messages became argumentative, when Peterson told Ryan that he would not provide him with the drugs that night.
Shortly after midnight on November 27th, Ryan Smith and a female friend arrived at 407 Oak Valley Road in Mt. Horeb, where Peterson was staying with a friend. Peterson met Ryan outside the residence armed with a baseball bat, which he used to beat Ryan. Initially the female had remained in the vehicle, but when she heard noises she got out and confronted Peterson. She called 911, and Peterson fled through the back of the house.

How about this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltona_massacre

What? Baseball bats being used in a MASSACRE?! We simply MUST ban them!

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See what I'm getting at, yet?

Yes, we should all have personal nuclear weapons, as there is no evidence they have ever been misused by a member of the public, and they make a very good ultimate deterrent.